At least all this talk about bugs makes me feel better about not having time to play Kingmaker this week.
At least we have time to experiment with builds until patches come through.
Feels neat replaying the Stag Lord arc while listening to
corny grimdark metal.
Your HP + Dmg will be impressive but your survivability is very low without Dex ... basically you'll eat damage like a sponge.
Impressive in the beginning but not so impressive towards the end game. It's a glass cannon build.
Going to add another point into dexterity, but that's about it. Max bonus AC from Dex is 1 when wearing the heaviest armor, so I don't see the point of wasting more points into it.
Or am I missing something?
You get Belts with +4 in STR, DEX and CON (I think I saw something like +6 belt!?) therefore you will be able to fix the lacking DEX.
Your build is similar with what I've used for the 1st play-through (I had 18 STR instead of 20, Armored Hulk) and I've pumped Fortitude as much as possible but in the end my Barbarian was still a damage sponge because AC is better than Fortitude.
I'm no expert but yeah, I think AC > Fortitude because in this game if you get hit then the damage is brutal. Just my opinion. I could be wrong and it's possible that I've fucked up my Barbarian build ... but honestly I was sick of healing him after each fight. Not to mention the Fatigue 1min penalty.
Now I've switched to a Two-handed Fighter and at this point (1) is doing less but very close damage to the Barbarian, (2) the survivability is much better and (3) there is no 1min Fatigue after Rage and also it doesn't depend on Rage. Pretty cool until now.